Is it more expensive than OS X though? Windows licenses are like $50 for OEM. With OS X you have to constantly buy upgrades since their support period is short. I might be wrong though, never bought an OS X license.
And OSX and Server is an orphan product try to find any usefull information about using OSx/Mac's when you have more than one or two systems.
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I am Migrating our mostly Mac shop from standalone to networked using OSX and to be honest using windows server 2012 woudl have been far cheaper in time and hardware costs
I assume he means shared profile/network authentication/configuration management. Active Directory stuff, basically, which yeah, OS X server can do, but I share the opinion that it is actually much harder to get set up to feature parity.
Sorry I should have said to set up central single sign on mobile accounts for laptops you know basic small office functionality.
There isn't even a method for converting from stand alone users to a network one! - looks like those that say that Apple is abandoning osx users for ios have some validity
OSX has moved to a free OS upgrade model as of two releases ago and very cheap upgrades for the two releases before that (the last 5 years of OSX upgrades cost less than any single Windows OEM upgrade of the same time period). The most recent release supports most of their computers from 2009 and much of the more-capable hardware from 2007 (basically all the way back to the first Intel-based Pro Mac lines).
Yeah, it's shorter than MS and Linux support windows but I wouldn't describe it as "constantly buying upgrades" either.
